The newly released series in Netflix, “Adolescence”He shook the audiovisual panorama with his crude portrait of a contemporary youth sector, reflecting problems that most adults did not know or disregard. In it, a 13 -year -old is accused of murdering a schoolmate and, through such a narrative, puts questions such as adolescent isolation at the center of public opinions, The “Incel” culture, the dynamics of the 80/20 percentage in young people and the dangerous rise of figures such as Elliot Rodger and Andrew Tateemblems of the quarrelsome and spiteful profile that makes the generation in question as a flag. But beyond fiction, what the series exposes is a social phenomenon with real and worrying consequences.
For a greater understanding of the subject, it is worth detailing some of the main concepts proposed by “Adolescence.” The word “ince” comes from “Involuntary Celibate”translated into Spanish as an involuntary celibacy, and describes an online community of men, mostly teenagers, who feel rejection by the most desired women and thus develop a misogynist and nihilist vision of the world.
Both in “adolescence” and in real life, this feeling is represented through characters that find refuge in internet forums where hatred and victimhood narratives are reinforced. In turn, inels divide the world into “Chads” and “Stacys”. The first group are attractive and dominant boys who supposedly monopolize female attention, while the “stacys” are the girls who are only interested in them.
This thought reinforces a circle of frustration, alienation and, in some cases, violence. These two types of groups are those that shape the theory of 80/20, a rule that postulates that 80 percent of women are only interested in 20 percent of the most attractive men. While sociological studies have identified selection trends in appointment applications, the extreme interpretation of this rule in the Incel community leads them to fatalistic conclusions: they believe that if they are not in that 20 percent desirable men, they are sentenced to loneliness.
Mariana MaggioDoctor of Education and author of the book “Powerful parenting”, consulted by News explains: “The powerful thing about the series is that he questioned all parents regarding the quality and knowledge of the link we have with our children. And it makes it clear that they handle a language, a feeling and a symbology of which we are oblivious in many cases. ”Another point that enters into question is the spaces where the boys between 12 and 18 years old move, in what would be their social and sexual awakening.
Maggio adds: “Adolescents spend a lot of time in solitude, immersed on a screen that has an internal world saturated with not very clear, confusing and unrelated messages. Adults believe that it is virtual but for them it is very physical and then reflects when they leave that room and face the real world.”
In recent years, many were the names that made relevance in the Incel spectrum. In internal codes, it is called “Perchase” And it corresponds to the virtual space where the INCEL moves, formed by websites, blogs and photos online where masculinity, misogyny and opposition to feminism are fogone. One of the maximum promoters of the empowerment of that 80 percent of marginalized boys by the “stacys” is Andrew Tate, who calls himself the “guru of masculinity.”
Their slogans are the anxiety and anger that gives combustion to that “who do not fit into the idealized standards of attractiveness and power.” For former Kick Boxer and former participant of Big Brother’s house in England of which he was expelled for an act of gender violence, became an influencer of what he titled “self -supply”, developing misogynistic and hostile messages towards women. In his brutal videos, he encourages “recovering power through domination and emotional detachment.” It is worth clarifying that the “adolescence” series is the product of this wrong message in all its principles.
The INCEL Constitution is written about the springs of illegality and marginality. In fact, his patron saint is Elliot Rodger, A 22 -year -old boy who, in 2014, murdered six people and committed suicideleaving a manifesto in which he explained his hatred towards women for having rejected him. On Inlel websites, such as 4Chan.comRodger is an idol and his attack has inspired other violent acts of equal characteristics.
Damián Supply He is a psychologist specialized in adolescence. Before the series of the series and its repercussion globally, it reflects: “Put on the table, with its lights and shadows, the space of intimacy of adolescentswhere they handle a very personal code, which has to do with emojis, because the chat is the main communication tool today. The boys encode those messages from emojis with greater force than adults. For one boy a heart of another color they expect, it can be the end. ”
On the possibility of parents to reverse this era evil, Supply replies: “The key is that adults visualize this problem because the boys hardly recognize it, but it can be treated and decompressed. In the series there is an interesting scene, where the boy in full overflow of his personality, asks the psychologist if he liked Sight of being behind other concerns, but for our boys, that validation is fundamental. ”
Language
In the vast digital universe, emojis have become a key tool for communication between Incl. He Pill concept comes from the terminology of the film “Matrix” and is used to describe different ways of perceiving reality. The red pill implies an awakening “uncomfortable truths”, while black is even more extreme and represents total despair, suggesting that the life of the inceles is predestined to loving failure. Color hearts also have particular meanings. The black heart is associated with nihilism and hopelessness, red to love, the sexual purple, the pink to a non -sexual interest and the orange to “you will be fine”. The dynamite next to that of the red pill indicates that the person who receives it is an ince. The number 100 commonly used to emphasize something positive was adopted to reinforce beliefs about the inevitability of their situation. It is used to validate fatalistic ideas or reinforce resignation speeches.
The link between parents and children is approached in the series “Adolescence” in its best and most current expression. While its director Philip Barantini It is responsible for showing each family underworld in detail with a way of filming unpublished sequences for world television (not in the cinema), the texts of Jack Thorne and Stephen Graham (The latter also makes the father of the adolescent pointed out), they expose the little connection between the two: very united but distanced parents of their children and children immersed in their issues, given an apparent calm for the outside that it is not such. Supply He affirms: “The series makes us reflect how and when adults we must intercede without underestimating the power of a screen and everything that is enclosed in our children. When we lower the price to the interests of our children, it is when they more protect their concerns and we move away from it.”
Complete Maggio In his connection analysis between parents and children: “When in the series the father tells the mother“ should we have done something else? ”, And yes, they should have done something else. Send him to a good school and buy what he wants is not to do more. You have to hold bridges that allow you to find, talk, share and even get excited together. The point is, do we know how to do it better?
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